Land and water toy



July 6\,1926. 1,591,749

l J. L. DUGGAN LAND AND WATER TOY Filed April 1925 2 Sheets-$heet 1 WITNESSES @ZLJZ /g u BY ATTORNEYS INVENTOR J. L. DUGGAN LAND AND WATER TOY Filed April 8, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 WITNESSES J INVENTOR I L u qycm ATTORNEYS Patented July 6, 1926.

umra smrss JOSEPH L. DUGGAN, OF ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY.

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Application filed April 8, 1925.. Serial .No. 21,647.

Myinvention relates to a toy adapted to bepropelled on land or in water and the present invention is an improvement on the land and water toy forming the subject matter of Letters Patent No. 1,456,429, granted to me May 22, 1923.

The general object of the present invention is to improve the patented toy referred to in various particulars especially with respect to the means connecting the propelling mechanism with the figure simulating an oarsman and serving to give a lifting and rewin movement to the figure. v

More specifically, the present invention has for an object to simplify the construction and to insure that the proper move-' inents are imparted to thefigure to simulate a rowing action.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, it being understood that the drawings are merely illustrative of one example f the invention.

Figure 1 is a view partly in side elevation and partly in vertical section of a toy embodying my invention showing in one position the figure representing an oarsman, the section being indicated by the line 1- in Figure 2 Figure 2 is a plan view;

Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 1 but showing the position of the figure after a partial rotary movement of the actuating element for the figure which is illustrated in the form of a crank shaft;

Figures 4 and 5 are fragmentary views in vertical section showing successive positions of the figure during a revolution of the actuating crank shaft, the housing for the propelling mechanism being omitted from said Figures 4 and 5;

Figure 6 is a sectional plan view of a ratchet and'pawl assemblage forming part of the illustrated motor mechanism;

Figure 7 is a transverse vertical section in a plane indicated by the line 77, Figure 6. y

In the illustrated example of my 1nvention the numeral 10 indicates a boat body; 11, a pair of front running wheels on a driven axle 12; and 13 a rear wheel on the lower end of standard or spindle 14 having a laterally bent handle arm 15 at the upper end. Said wheel 13 may be employed as a steering wheel on land or as a rudder in the water. The numeral 16 indicates a figure simulating an o-arsman and 17 the cars operated by the movements of the figure; said oars being confined in car locks 18 on the upper edge of the body 10. p

The numeral 19 indicates the housing for the motor mechanism, said motor mechanism including a shaft 20 here shown as at' a slight angle to a vertical line-and having a wing-ed winding bar 21 On shaft 20 is a bevel pinion 22 meshing with a smaller bevel pinion 23 Figure 1) on axle 1.2. A spring 24 similar to a clock spring is secured at one end to shaft 20. The outer end of the spring is secured in the illustrated example to a yoke 24 rigid with pinion 22. The arrangement is such that the reaction of spring 24 upon being wound by the winding shaft 20 will serve to turn the yoke'25 and pinion 22, the latter driving the pinion 23 andaxle 12 and running wheels 11.

In accordance with the present invention the following means is provided to actuate the figure 16. A lever 26 here shown as having a slightly upturned front end 27 has an upwardly extending arm 28 thereon which is engaged in a keeper v29 on the figure 16 at the back. Said lever 26 extends rearwardly through a slot 30 in an extension 31 of housing 19. Said housing includes a top plate 32held by tongues 33 to the sides of the boat body 10. The rear end of lever 26 is connected with the crank arm 34 of crank shaft 35, said shaft turning in bearings in side members 36 of the housing extension 31.

T he figure 16, it will be observed, is jointed, the legs 116 being pivoted as at 216 to the torso of the figure. the arrangement beins; such that the feet 316 rest on the bottom of the boat body 10. The lever 26,'it is to be be observed from various figures, rests on the bottom of the boat body 10, the bearing point being at the salient angle (126) formcdby the body of said lever 26 and the slightly angular forward end 275 said point 126 of said lever constituting a fulcrum.

I On the crank shaft is a bevel pinion 37 here shown as a sprocket pi ion engaging abarrel pinion 38 rigid with the driven pinion 23 whereby said crank shaft 35 is driven with the turning of said pinion 23.

lVith the described drive for the crank shaft and the employment of the lever 26 connecting the crank shaft with the figure 16 and resting on the bottom of the body at thepoint 126 the turning of the crank arm 34 with the revolution of the shaft 35 will move the figure 16 from the position indicated, for example, in Figure 1 successively to the positions of Figures 3, t and 5 so that it will be seen that the figure moves from a rearwardly inclined position upwardly by lifting action of arm 28 and then forwardly to the position of Figure 3, then rearwardly to the position shown in Figure 4, thence to the position shown in Figure 5, for giving the proper movement to the oars 17 for propelling the boat.

The oars are shown as having at their inner ends eyes 117 held by pins 39 depending from the arms 40 of the figure 16.

Reverting to the motor mechanism the shaft 20 has fixed thereto a ratchet wheel =1] which is engaged by a spring pawl 42 in.- tegral with the top plate 32 of the housing 19 in a manner that the ratchet wheel. 41 may turn with the winding shaft 20 and slip past the pawl 42 but said pawl will prevent retrograde movement of the ratchet wheel 41 and shaft 20, thereby requiring the spring 40 to turn the yoke 25 and wheel 22.

A governor device is shown in the motor mechanism the same consisting of a wheel 413 and driven by the barrel pinion 38 and meshing with a pinion 4-1 on a shaft 45, which shaft 45 has a blade 16 acting as a retarding fan. Said governor device forms no part of my invention.

I would state furthermore that while the illustrated example constitutes a practical embodiment of my invention, I do not limit myself strictly to the exact details herein illustrated, since, manifestly, the same can be considerably varied without departure from the spirit of the invention as defined in the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention. I claim:

In a toy of the class described, a body, motor driven traction wheels therefor, a fig;- ure in the body, an angular lever, the arms of which define a corner resting on the bottom of the body, one end of said lever supporting said figure, means operated from the motor for actuating the lever to cause movement of the figure simulating the motions of an oarsman, said means including a to tat-able crank arm engaged with the end of the lever, operable to rock the same on its fulcrum and slide the same on the bottom.

JOSEPH L. DUGGAX. 

